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|  | Another Desert by Joan Logghe, Miriam Sagan
This collection blends the history, celebrations, and reconciliation of ancient Jewish traditions with life in New Mexico. The circle of the Jewish year is saturated by the New Mexico experience as tashlich is performed in a precious desert river, and Passover coincides with Good Friday pilgrims making a holy journey to the Santuario de Chimayo. At root these are poems of faith -- in the beauty of the desert, in the survival of tradition and memory, and ultimately in the ability of language to contain and express experience. AUTHOR: Joan Logghe, Miriam Sagan
PUBLISHER: Sherman Asher Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly by Ann Douglas, Darryl Pinckney, George L. Aiken, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan Yellin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause. AUTHOR: Ann Douglas, Darryl Pinckney, George L. Aiken, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jean Fagan Yellin
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Enlarged edition with more than a hundred poems and poetic fragments from the great age of Greek lyric poetry - in robust and graceful modern translation. AUTHOR: Richmond Lattimore
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Andre Bernard, Julie Rubenstein
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to Mister, a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. AUTHOR: Alice Walker, Andre Bernard, Julie Rubenstein
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Inner City Mother Goose by David Diaz, Eve Merriam, Nikki Giovanni
Contemporary themes are used to update traditional Mother Goose rhymes. Social commentaries are made on subjects involving inner city life and political issues. Color illustrations accompany the verses. AUTHOR: David Diaz, Eve Merriam, Nikki Giovanni
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky, Peter Sis
A collection of 18 poems about dragons. Oil and gouache paintings illustrate the verses. AUTHOR: Jack Prelutsky, Peter Sis
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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